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The connection for benzos is somewhat tenuous in its own right, but gabapentin actually has basically nothing to do with Benzos and does not act on your GABA system

isn't it generally recommended to use distilled water in these humidifiers for exactly this reason?

Do you have a source for this? As far as I know the purpose of corporations is to shield owners from losses and not a whole lot beyond that.

I bookmarked the article after the first few paragraphs to potentially share with some friends. Definitely a bit disappointed at the end. Was hoping the author would share their in…

one common effect of SSRIs is that they can dull emotions. This is helpful and can be a positive effect if you are very depressed or get stuck in anxious spiraling. If you're very …

Does anyone know how one might go about implementing a feature like multiple select? I had a project doing something similar a while back and got pretty stuck on figuring out how t…

I'm not really sure I buy it. It seems to me more likely that he's just still incompetent and sort of addicted to the spotlight. He was one of the most popular and well-respected p…

I never took anything past high school chemistry and I managed to understand it. It's not really that abstruse. My background is a bunch of wikipedia articles and chemistry youtube…

I took an undergraduate course on the economics of science and technology. A large portion of it was devoted to patents. The problem is generally that public funding accounts for e…

This makes sense as graduate school gets more and more competitive. Getting a tenure track position nowadays often requires being among the best students of a top graduate program.…

Where did Judaism spread via war and forced conversion? Your historical claim is not entirely accurate and seemed very biased. Buddhism was spread by missionaries throughout histor…

You are correct to point out that games have gotten simpler in a certain sense, but I wouldn't conflate that with being less competitive. Simple games can be very competitive becau…

I’m no expert here and hopefully a doctor or public health student can chime in with the most accurate data here. However a quick google search suggests that nicotine is categorica…

Can I ask what the name of the book is?

He made novel contributions to computability theory. The first person to show that one-dimensional cellular automata could be turing-complete. That being said, he’s very much a cra…

In my experience undergraduate math textbooks are not like that at all. Perhaps for the introductory calculus sequence, but rarely for anything upper-division. There are so many go…

If you looked instead at the number of people who obtain tenure at a research university, it would look much more comparable to getting into the NBA.

What do you mean? He is currently a U.S. Senator. There aren’t many circles more elite or powerful than that.

Hey this was me! When I was a child, my parents tried very hard to teach me how to tie my shoes, but I could not figure it out. To this day, I just tie them in knots and then make …

I’ll disagree with everyone else here. There’s not really a good reason to understand them, no. It’s good to have a broad understanding of what tricks are out there and to get a ge…

I’d be interested to see what the rate increase is for Athletes. I think of landing a top research as the equivalent of getting a spot on an NBA team (or other major sports team). …

This is a horrible argument. The article itself went through the reasons that the previous common belief was not applicable to this unprecedented pandemic. Yet it concludes, withou…

I think “dating coaching” is usually a term used akin to “pick-up artist” i.e. using manipulative tricks to convince people to have sex with you. I don’t think having there’s anyth…

It’s hard to understate how big Grothendieck’s imapact on mathematics was. He was, without any doubt, the most influential mathematician of the 20th Century. There are mathematicia…

I’m happy. It’s not really a big deal to me if my uploaded content is removed and I think the service that Spotify provides is worth more than what I pay for it.